I don't understand why this is such a big deal. Are you even zoomed in close enough to notice? Probably not. Ironically I tend to play zoomed in rather close to my toon and I don't care at all about updated models and don't think it should be a priority. Go figure.

A gigantic amount of butthurt is what I expect from it. No matter how awesome they make the new models players have been staring at the ones they have now for years. There'll no doubt be some people whining about the change.

Well duh, we're going to have that with ever single change Blizzard makes =3 I just want better textures... maybe some better looking faces.

I expect them to keep the "feel" of each race, and hopefully they aren't changing the animations to drastically.
Better looking hair is high on the list for sure. Hands could see a lot of improvements, especially for Forsaken characters, they are just claw-like and pointy. And most importantly I think is updating the old models faces, some are outright hideous.

I also hope that new models make me want to play races I don't enjoy, kinda filling up on 1-3 races as my most picked ones.. If it weren't for class restrictions, I could easily have my chars all be the same race.

I'd poked around the player stats pages, and this is true of the community as a whole. 4 races dominate the game, the rest lag far behind. Pandaren in some cases are rarer than dwarves and gnomes. And monks beyond the Wrathgate are almost nonexistent.

"Oh, who does my hair? You might have heard of my stylist. It's called the Void!"
"No matter how much you plead I will not sprout tentacles or turn into a giant eyeball. Well, I might. But not because you asked!"

"Oh, who does my hair? You might have heard of my stylist. It's called the Void!"
"No matter how much you plead I will not sprout tentacles or turn into a giant eyeball. Well, I might. But not because you asked!"

Option to show/hide shoes for Trolls would be nice. I know they aren't really shoe wearin' type, but when they put on boots that any other character would wear, they turn into ankle bracers. Sorta makes no sense, unless Trolls cut away the unneeded part of the shoe.

I'm expecting them to be at the same lvl of detail as the new faction leader models/new boss models. One thing I am hesitant about though is the number of customization options. WoW will never have some hyper-detailed customization with a bajillion sliders for everything, but I also don't want them to reduce the options from current numbers either. While everyone is hoping for more options for hair or tattoos or whatever, I'm just hoping we don't get another set-up like the fempandas where you only have one face to choose.

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Would love some more choices when it comes to customization. The only thing that might be a big... annoyement.. is that the characters and stuff will look like all better, while some parts of the world still look like shit >.<